Art will be everywhere and with everyone. The Art of the Future will have simply theoretic meaning and will change its role as time passes. Art will become such a harmonic reality, that it cannot be distinguished from the surroundings.
Art will not be Serving, but rather Global – Correlative.

воскресенье, 13 ноября 2011 г.

In the spirit of the NYC exhibition, artists are asked to create a
"page" for the unbound book about death. The art exhibited in Seattle
will be archived in the permanent gallery collection. The art will be available
for future exhibition opportunities to share the Seattle pages from the global
unbound book about death.
“A Book About Death” is an artists’ collaborative project conceived by collage
artist Matthew Rose for the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York City where the
original exhibition took place from September 10 - 22, 2009. Over 500 artists
contributed 500 postcards each created from artworks made especially to create
an unbound book about memory and death. The exhibition has become a global
phenomenon, as well as becoming part of the permanent collections of the Museum
of Modern Art and the LA County Museum of Art Research Library. For more information
about the scope and history of the project, please visit the archive:
http://abookaboutdeatharchive.blogspot.com/

Sponsorship: Water
Water is the most basic need for life. Without water, there is nothing.
A Book About Death Seattle is partnering with Mwanzo Proud Farmers, a US based
non-profit organization. The mission of Mwanzo Proud Farmers is "To expand
and diversify Kenyan cash and food crop farming as environmentally and
economically sustainable business in rural communities."
The founder/director of Mwanzo Proud Farmers is Loyce Ong’udi who was a Harry
Truman Scholar at the University of Washington where she studied leadership
development and non-profit management. Loyce is using her education and history
of international non-profit development experience to bring water and rural
farming to her childhood village in rural Kenya, as well assurrounding
villages. Loyce is bringing irrigated water to regions decimated by AIDS in
Kenya.
To learn more about her work, please visit MWANZO
PROUD FARMERS.
A Book About Death seeks sponsorship to cover the costs of the exhibition at
the Quetzalcoatl Feathersnake Gallery and assist Mwanzo Proud Farmers in
bringing life to rural Kenya.

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH takes its inspiration from the
late, underground American artist Ray Johnson. Conceptual artist and inventor
of “Correspondence Art,” Ray Johnson mailed his original unbound “book” to
friends and to his New York Correspondence School “students.” The pages, in his
idiosyncratic style, were funny, sad and ironic one page visual meditations on
death and life. Ray lived on Long Island, NY and committed suicide there in
1995.

The first ABAD show in 2009 was the brain child of
Paris-based American artist Matthew Rose. He was influenced by the mail art
work of Ray Johnson and invited artists to contribute 500 identical postcards
on any aspect of the theme of death. The show took place at the Emily Harvey
Foundation Gallery in NYC. Visitors were encouraged to collect one of every
card and take them home. The pages, of every kind of design imaginable,
approached this universal subject from every point of view–personal,
metaphysical, conceptual and abstract. This original show is now in the permanent
collections of the Museum of Modern Art NYC, the MoMA Wales, UK and the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art,and included work from artists as well known
as Yoko Ono and as obscure as Dame Mailarta.

ABAD has since grown into an international art movement
that continues to travel across the US and internationally. ABAD has shown in
Brazil, Belgium, the UK, Croatia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Mexico. It
has spawned dozens of collaborative exhibitions on three continents.

This new exhibition celebrates THE TIES THAT
BIND all living things universally through death, as well as the creative
ties which now bind thousands of artists that literally reach around the world.

The Bay Shore, LI exhibit will feature for the first time
new work from worldwide artists that are actual book pages like Ray
Johnson originally created in 1963, and NOT postcards. The pages will
be bound by the curator into a handmade volume and displayed at the exhibition,
thereby furnishing an Omega to the Alpha of the Unbound Book from the original
NYC show.

There have been many performance pieces included in these
shows but never any music. For this show, I would love to feature some
live New Orleans Funeral Jazz! That is primarily what I am raising the money
for. I also need to print up posters and fund publicity and other items for the
opening reception.

Judging by the political and social situation in Armenia, we
could notice emergence of public consciousness which became obvious since 1st
of March 2008. Parallel to political demonstrations there is a resistance on
the social and cultural levels as well. These social-cultural changes brought
necessity to organize public events.
On the other hand many artists and curators aren’t able to find any exist
exhibition space for their work, so there is a great need for alternative
places, and current project could initiate events in urban spaces—in abandoned
buildings, empty spaces, public places and etc, which will lead to alternative
ways of presentation of art.
The situation is not unlike that of the 80s, prior to perestroika and during.
Artists would present exhibitions in abandoned buildings and parks because
there were no spaces for avant-garde or contemporary art. In the 90s an
institutional boom fostered a parade of institutions emerging one after
another. Today, some of them are closed down or lack funds. So, with the
actualization of outdoor exhibitions and site-specific projects, we are calling
for potential for new institutional structures that are based on collaboration
and creativity.
The main goal of the project is investigation of urban space in search of open,
available spaces for artistic activities. With this project we will try to make
the city functional from an artistic point of view. It is also an opportunity
for artists and curators to find new places for exhibitions of contemporary
art.
The project is organized in the framework of Transkaukazja Festival (www.transkaukazja.eu)
started in Warsaw in 2004. The project has been funded with support from the
European Commission in the framework of the Culture Program 2007-2013.
Curator: Eva Khachatryan

The mankind today stands in front of ecological disasters, which are a serious threat for the Earth. Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and other unpredictable ecological disasters have become very frequent, taking away the lives of numerous people and cause economical and financial harm in different continents and regions.

Such an earthquake took place in 1988 in the northern regions of Armenia (the city of Gyumri). Thousands of people were killed and left homeless, about 40% of the country’s industry and economy was paralyzed.

A lot of years have passed, but up to now there are still half-destroyed constructions, which look like living memory of the disaster. This scenery is in Gyumri. Being ignored, they need interference of the human’s creative mind, modernization. These virtual images are the witnesses of the liquidation of the disaster consequences and implementation of new ideas. It also has an alternative direction to realize the importance of artistic interference as an important support to the development of life. They are also contradictions of optimism, creative mind and imagination to the disastrous environment, lost public territories. The territories, which have unique importance for the society from psychological, esthetic and other points of view.

I am preparing a multimedial event about women,
called WOMEN IN ART Show, in march 2011 in La Biennale de Montevideo, resto-pub
from Sorocabana Palace.

This is a famous Palace in art and intelectual
uruguayan world and history, the walls and newspapers spoke and speake about,
all intellectuals from 900 generation was there, making them artistic and
intellectual activities: writers, journalists, fine artists, etc; so is a great
honor be and participate in exhibitions in that place.

Plaza Cagancha is called too the place of the
artists, Biennale de Montevideo doors open on this historic centre, with
neighboors as Museo Jose Pedro Varela and Ateneo de Montevideo Museum.

Each art small room have so so 100 square
metres,one of them with door to 50 metres far to 18 de Julio Avenue (thats
central Montevideo Avenue)

An exhibition to change our destiny, to change Art
history (what not include women in official books about Art)

An exhibition to become big exhibit nexts years
and become itinerant project in Uruguay 2012.

The event will during minimun 10 days (march 3 to
march 17) in first exhibition and will becoming itinerant exhibit in near
future for indeterminated time

with participation in international MAY 8th events of the
Montevideo city.

The image which you are looking at is the result of progressive valuable system,

and the obvious nakedness- the result of irreproachable full value.

Karen Alekyan’s conceptual work likewise relates to memory: it comprises text that doubles as its title, and an old photograph kept in the archives of Mosfilm studios. This photograph by an anonymous artist of the 1920s represents a forlorn memory of building a happy society. Karen Alekyan’s work is called The image you are seeing is the result of a progressive system of values, whereas blatant nudity – of immaculate adequacy.

By putting Socialism on the same footing as Stalinism, we are guilty of unwarranted encroachment on our memory, whereas the author brings us back to the pre-Stalinist Soviet Union, where private property still existed alongside personal chattel and collective assets.

The physical extermination of private owners by the military-bureaucratic system had not yet been declared to constitute the triumph of socialism, compromising socialism and communism and departing irreversibly from Marxism. The country in the photograph is the one implementing the New Economic Policy (NEP), where collective enterprises engaged in free competition with individual entrepreneurs, demonstrating their advantages – the joy of collective labor and freedom.

An archive is a collection of historical records, as well as the place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime.

In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost always unique, unlike books or magazines for which many identical copies exist. This means that archives (the places) are quite distinct from libraries with regard to their functions and organization, although archival collections can often be found within library buildings.

A person who works in archives is called an archivist. The study and practice of organizing, preserving, and providing access to information and materials in archives is called archival science.

Digital and media artist.
As a contemporary artist, his art reflects the social-economical pictures and global technological developments. The Contemporary Art is an inseparable part of the developing technologies, the science and changing existence, which raises a lot of up-to-date international changes, a necessity to protect ecology and environment. It’s an ideology that will lead to the universal future. He is sure that the main issue in the context of contemporary art should not be the philosophy of inperfect past but that of foreseen Future.